Francis Wilson ’12
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Art
Areas of Study
Education
- BM in technology in music and related arts (TIMARA), Oberlin Conservatory, 2012
- MA in contemporary performance making, Brunel University London, 2014
- PhD in theater studies, University of Glasgow, 2021
Biography
Francis Marion Moseley Wilson is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily with digital media, live/body art, and taxidermy. She has performed at festivals and institutions internationally, including Chicago’sRapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (2015); Montreal, arts-interculturels (MAI)’s Prendre Place/Taking Place (2017); and Guerilla Zoo presents: Modern Panic X (2019) in London. She works closely with themes of risk, intimacy, vulnerability, and grief, particularly as it pertains to interspecies, material bodies in the current geopolitical era. Her PhD dissertation Bodies and Boundaries in Performing Taxidermy takes a practice-research approach to exploring taxidermic processes and taxidermic bodies in a live art, body-based performance practice.
She has assisted with TIMARA’s Sonic Arts Workshop for 9 summer sessions and lived in Oberlin for many years between her years of postgraduate academic studies. Prior to her arrival at Oberlin as Media Manager of the Studio Art Department, she worked in the University of Glasgow’s Theatre Studies department, overseeing group performance projects by Year 2 undergraduates and supervising MA students during their individual practice-research projects.
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Art-making in the Anthropocene (panelist, 2021), Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow
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International Queer Death Studies conference (paper, 2019), Karlstad University, Sweden
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Art in the Anthropocene (paper, 2019), Trinity College Dublin
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Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices (paper, 2019), Linneaus University, Sweden
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Intersections (paper, 2018), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London
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INTIME Symposium (fixed-media composition & paper, 2015), Coventry University
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Guerrilla Zoo Presents: Modern Panic X (performance, 2019), London, U.K.
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MediaLive festival (installation, 2019), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
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MAI’s Prendre Place/Taking Place festival (performance, 2017), Montreal, Canada
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Queer City Cinema’s Performatorium (performance, 2016), Regina, Canada
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Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival (performance, 2015), Chicago
- “Taxidermy, Documentation, & the Liveness of Death,” Body, Space, & Technology (BST) Journal, Vol. 15 (2016)